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Love hearing Bianca Hernandez-Knight discuss her journeys into Austen fandom and historical costuming. “For me what has really helped click literature to history has been understanding fashion . . . “ @bookhoarding @FirstImpressPod https://firstimpressionspodcast.podbean.com/mobile/e/ep-60-diversity-and-inclusion-in-austen-fandom-with-bianca-hernandez/
“F*** yeah, I’m gonna stay for the Wentworth letter! Who am I?” 
Kristin: “My love of Austen was so solitary for such a long time — and then discovering Drunk Austen was a revelation, because I didn’t realize it could also be FUN.”
Shout out to @jasnajuvenilia 
Shout out to The Jane Austen Universe, the fabulous FB group created by @bookhoarding https://m.facebook.com/groups/936777670164173?id=936777670164173&ref=content_filter&_rdr
“For me, reading Austen by myself was an experience and I still enjoy it . . . but reading Austen with other people is better than ANYTHING else to me.”
Go get that parsonage, Charlotte.
“Yeah, sex is great but have you ever read Jane Austen with OTHER PEOPLE.”
Kristen: “Fundamentally, if you don’t want to have a discussion — why do you have a discussion group??”
Bianca: “And I think that’s the key. Who gets to talk about Austen and how do they talk about it. That’s the key that I have tried to think about when I’m in any community.”
Bianca: “And I think that’s the key. Who gets to talk about Austen and how do they talk about it. That’s the key that I have tried to think about when I’m in any community.”
“This isn’t a 
political group.” 
political group.”
“Why are we continuing the ENDLESS thing of, ‘we can only have POC if it’s a traumatic story, otherwise we erase them completely’?”
Shout out to Cinderella 1995!
ICYMI, here’s Bianca’s video from December about gatekeeping and Bridgerton:
Think about how your actions impact other people — Jane Austen, probably
Bianca: “Who are you protecting and who are you excluding? That’s the big conversation . . . and that means a commitment to structural change.”
Kristin and Bianca discuss white fragility, white women’s (especially) tendency to unhealthy conflict-averseness. Incidentally I just attended a seminar that addressed this issue with Dr. Amanda Kemp and her team. Highly recommended. https://www.dramandakemp.com/racial-justice-from-the-heart-2
It is not rude to ask someone else to stop being rude!
Shout out to Black Girl in a Big Dress 
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCsfdAYPzeQ7kPLZ9-pz2I2Q
https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCsfdAYPzeQ7kPLZ9-pz2I2Q
“If you don’t mean EVERYBODY, don’t say it.”
Shout out to @virtualjanecon! Coming May 1 and 2 to an internet near you!
Ooh! Interesting question: How would we view Mr. Darcy differently as a character if he’d been played by Cary Grant instead of Olivier in 1940 (as was proposed at the time!!!)?
I would LOVE to hear @bookhoarding’s talk on Darcys through the ages and what that says about cultural ideas of masculinity, attractiveness.
“This podcast has either gone off the rails or gotten really interesting” 
Here’s the link to sign up for the #VirtualJaneCon mailing list: https://gmail.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=42821b9e29316fa5701ee6f0a&id=fbd6446ac6
He’s just shy 
Come hang out on Bianca’s Patreon too: https://www.patreon.com/bookhoarding/posts
